| 6968338 |
Extensible database framework for management of unstructured and semi-structured documents |
| Nov-22-2005 |
Method and system for querying a collection of Unstructured or semi-structured documents to identify presence of, and provide context and/or content for, keywords and/or keyphrases. The documents are analyzed... |
| 6968333 |
Soliciting information based on a computer user's context |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A user search request is received and context information for the user is identified. The user search request and the context information are then combined to generate search criteria corresponding to... |
| 6968330 |
Database query optimization apparatus and method |
| Nov-22-2005 |
A database query optimizer processes an expression in a database query, and generates therefrom an operand list and a corresponding truth table that may be represented by a list of binary characters, where... |
| 6966053 |
Architecture for automated analysis and design with read only structure |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and architecture for calculating input values for use in automated analysis and design during the various stages of the design process includes smart defaults. Specific parameter types are defined,... |
| 6965896 |
Active log read I/O balancing for log duplexing |
| Nov-15-2005 |
The invention is embodied in a method for enabling improved access to data stored in a log of a computer memory system, wherein the computer memory system has multiple copies of said log, i.e., a primary... |
| 6965890 |
Hyper video: information retrieval using realtime buffers |
| Nov-15-2005 |
Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents, such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the... |
| 6963885 |
System and method for identifying invoices that may be duplicate prior to payment |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A system and method for identifying duplicate invoices among multiple systems, the method including the steps of loading first invoices having an index number into a database during a first predetermined... |
| 6963864 |
Human resources information internet accessible database |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A database of subscriber data includes employee data for a plurality of employees and is correlated to a plurality of employee attributes. A query from a specific subscriber includes at least one desired... |
| 6963863 |
Network query and matching system and method |
| Nov-8-2005 |
A method for finding a trading ad on a network includes steps of receiving a query, devising a query string from the query, sending the query string to a search engine of the network, searching via the... |
| 6961725 |
Method of a data range search with plural pre-set rules |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A search method for a range search with a plurality of pre-set rules constructs a rule mapping table by dividing data associated with the rules into a plurality of sub-keys and generating output tables... |
| 6961724 |
Method and apparatus for image retrieval |
| Nov-1-2005 |
A method and an apparatus for retrieving images which allows easy retrieval of a desired image from an image database stored in an electronic or optical recording medium or a communication network. As... |
| 6959287 |
Method and system for conducting a target audit in a high volume transaction environment |
| Oct-25-2005 |
A target audit methodology to provide a transaction-based detail of errors in an environment with a high volume of transactions. The primary components comprise a distributed computer network, such as... |
| 6957222 |
Optimizing an outer join operation using a bitmap index structure |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method, computer program and database system are disclosed for performing an outer join of at least a first table T1 and a second table T2. The join has join conditions. Each of the tables has an associated... |
| 6957214 |
Architecture for distributed database information access |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A system for accessing information from data sources. A user domain translates queries from users and applications for recognition by an aggregation domain, receives responses from the aggregation domain,... |
| 6957213 |
Method of utilizing implicit references to answer a query |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A method of utilizing implicit references to answer a query includes receiving segments of text, wherein individual segments have elements. Implicit references are inferred between elements of the segments.... |
| 6957212 |
Apparatus and methods for intelligently caching applications and data on a gateway |
| Oct-18-2005 |
An exemplary method for intelligently caching applications and data on a gateway comprises the steps of calculating a cache benefit index for a set of files, the cache benefit index measuring a total benefit... |
| 6954764 |
Region modeling of mobile services |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A shareable application program interface infrastructure which is used in combination with a relational database to provide data storage and processing functions for location-dependent objects, and includes... |
| 6954750 |
Method and system for facilitating the refinement of data queries |
| Oct-11-2005 |
Refining a current query. Receiving information regarding the relevancy of documents retrieved from a document collection in response to a current query. Ranking the retrieved documents in accordance with... |
| 6954749 |
Methods and apparatus for identifying related nodes in a directed graph having named arcs |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The invention provides methods for identifying related data in a directed graph (e.g., an RDF data set). A "first" step—though the steps are not necessarily executed in sequential order—includes... |
| 6954748 |
Remote data access and integration of distributed data sources through data schema and query abstraction |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The present invention generally is directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data independent of the particular manner in which the data is physically represented. In one embodiment,... |
| 6952692 |
Execution of requests in a parallel database system |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A database system is able to perform efficient execution of insert-select, join-delete, or join-update requests. The database system has plural access modules to manage access of respective portions of... |
| 6950881 |
System for converting wireless communications for a mobile device |
| Sep-27-2005 |
A system is provided for exchanging communications between a mobile device and a network site. The system includes a the conversion engine that coupled to network site in response to a request signaled... |
| 6948001 |
Modular software method for independent storage nodes |
| Sep-20-2005 |
An independent storage node is disclosed that includes a processor and transport hardware in communication with the processor that is capable of communicating data via a transport connection. Executing... |
| 6947959 |
Digital media asset management system and process |
| Sep-20-2005 |
An application for managing digital assets regardless of type or format. The application allows assets to be check-in, either on an individual asset basis or on a group basis, and check-out. Information... |
| 6947928 |
Graphical user interface for building queries with hierarchical conditions |
| Sep-20-2005 |
The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture for programmatically providing a user interface for creating queries. In one embodiment, graphical user interface content... |
| 6947920 |
Method and system for response time optimization of data query rankings and retrieval |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A method and system for optimizing response time for data query rankings and retrieval is provided. In response to a received search query that contains one or more terms, an information retrieval system... |
| 6944624 |
Method and system for creating and implementing personalized training programs and providing training services over an electronic network |
| Sep-13-2005 |
Method system and storage medium for creating and implementing a personalized training program. The method includes receiving a request to generate a personalized training program by a user and retreiving... |
| 6944619 |
System and method for organizing data |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A system and method for organizing and retrieving data is provided. The present invention replicates existing data in a format that is representative of naturally occurring relationships associated with... |
| 6944614 |
Query monitor playback mechanism for post-mortem performance analysis |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for monitoring an executed query comprising at least one execution thread is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of executing the... |
| 6944613 |
Method and system for creating a database and searching the database for allowing multiple customized views |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A method and system allows multiple customized views which are organization, user role, and end-user specific, to be generated from a single search engine and a product database. The database is assembled... |
| 6944611 |
Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A system stores digital media records and has a search engine searching the stored digital media records. The system receives first search requests from a plurality of first users. The system performs,... |
| 6941301 |
Pre-processing input data with outlier values for a support vector machine |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A system and method for preprocessing input data to a support vector machine (SVM). The SVM is a system model having parameters that define the representation of the system being modeled, and operates... |
| 6941300 |
Internet crawl seeding |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A method and system for seeding a search system for searching for multimedia and streaming media (m/s media) related data, includes providing m/s related metadata as a seed. An initial search term is provided... |
| 6941299 |
Method for querying a database |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention relates to a method for querying a database with database contents that have a database structure. The query is made in a query structure, which differs from the database structure in that... |
| 6941294 |
Method and apparatus for digital media management, retrieval, and collaboration |
| Sep-6-2005 |
A system stores digital media records, and comprising a vocabulary file of words keyed to the digital media records. A search query is received by computer from a user, the search query including words.... |
| 6941293 |
Methods and apparatus for determining equivalent descriptions for an information need |
| Sep-6-2005 |
Methods and apparatus determine equivalent descriptions for an information need. In one implementation, if adjacent entries in a query log contain common terms, the uncommon terms are identified as a candidate... |
| 6941292 |
Method and system for optimizing data searches in tree structures |
| Sep-6-2005 |
Aspects for optimizing data searches in tree structures are described. The aspects include organizing multiple search levels of data into sub-trees contained in fixed size blocks of shared external memory... |
| 6938038 |
Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing qualifiers and qualified taxonomy tables |
| Aug-30-2005 |
An embodiment of the invention comprises a method and apparatus for structuring, storing and retrieving data in database systems utilizing relational objects referred to as qualifiers. Catalog data are... |
| 6938037 |
Method and apparatus for data storage and retrieval |
| Aug-30-2005 |
A system, method, apparatus, and computer program code for data storage and retrieval. According to some embodiments, data storage pursuant to the present invention includes receiving document information... |
| 6938036 |
Query modification analysis |
| Aug-30-2005 |
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for a query analysis approach used to identify "nondestructive" and "destructive" queries. In one aspect, a "non-destructive" query is one which... |
| 6938033 |
System and method of using e-mail centered internet interaction |
| Aug-30-2005 |
The present invention allows an e-mail server to process requests for Web pages and forward copies of the requested Web pages as attachments to e-mail messages. In addition to providing copies of a first... |
| 6934712 |
Tagging XML query results over relational DBMSs |
| Aug-23-2005 |
A method for publishing relational data as XML by translating XML queries into queries against a relational database. Conversion of the relational database into an XML database is not required. Each relational... |
| 6931415 |
Text information browsing aid apparatus, digital content creation system, digital content distribution system, and storage medium |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A digital content distribution system that is suitable to provide digital content readable and output the digital content in a layout viewable for the user is provided. A content distribution terminal... |
| 6931396 |
Biological data processing |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A multi-database query system which queries a plurality of databases and servers, including an input which receives queries in a structured form and a translation server which translates at least a part... |
| 6931147 |
Mood based virtual photo album |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A method and system for providing a mood based virtual photo album which provides photos based upon a sensed mood the viewer. The method may include the steps of capturing a first image of a facial expression... |
| 6928433 |
Automatic hierarchical categorization of music by metadata |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable music playback device, that automatically files tracks according to hierarchical structure of categories to organize tracks in a... |
| 6928430 |
Prefix match search scheme |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A search scheme (10) in which a controller (14) provides a search key (16) to a search engine (18, 36). In one variation, the search engine (18) provides a match address... |
| 6928429 |
Simplifying browser search requests |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for searching for information. In response to receiving an input string, the input string is parsed for a universal resource identifier and a search string,... |
| 6928189 |
Automatic extraction of linear features from digital imagery |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A method and system for the extraction of linear features from digital imagery is described herein. The proposed methodology is based on the tridimensional Radon transformation and on the generation of... |
| 6925595 |
Method and system for content conversion of hypertext data using data mining |
| Aug-2-2005 |
Method and system for content conversion of electronic data using data mining. A user is able select one or more hypertext elements from one or more hypertext electronic document for conversion based on... |
